rsync -

[Bob Goodwin]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:47 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> If I tried to rsync the larger file with the smaller it simply 
>> replaced the larger file and I lost information.
>>     
>
> The first sentence in rsync(1) is: "Rsync  is  a  fast and
> extraordinarily versatile file *copying* tool." (my emphasis). Perhaps
> you were mislead by the name. The "synchronization" is at the level of
> sets of files, i.e. it is not comparable with synch tools such as SyncML
> which synchronize records (such as contact info) between distributed
> databases.
>
> Rsync compares file modification times and overwrites the older file
> with the newer. It does this by computing a minimum set of
> block-by-block updates. At no time does it try to understand the
> contents of the files.
>
> poc
>   
I guess it is obvious that I did not understand how rsync works. I also 
did not know how the notecase file was set up.

I do now,

Thanks to all for the responses. I am still going through the 
information I received.

Bob